Lot 151
New Naturalist
Numbers 84-107
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Ireland; Plant Disease; Lichens; Amphibians and Reptiles; Loch Lomondside; The Broads; Moths; Nature Conversation; Lakeland; British Bats; Seashore; Northumberland; Fungi; Mosses and Liverworts; Bumblebees; Woodlands; Galloway and the Borders; Garden Natural History; The Isles of Scilly; A History of Ornithology; Wye Valley; Dragonflies; Grouse. London: HarperCollinsPublishers [-Collins], 1999-2008. 24 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, dust jackets, Ireland (84) and The Broads (89) dust jacket spines faded [Bernard & Loe NN84A-107A]
Footnote
Note: First editions of numbers 84-107 in the New Naturalist series; Ireland (84) is in second-state binding with first-state jacket; Mosses and Liverworts (97) is in the second-state binding; Galloway (101), Garden Natural History (102) and The Isles of Scilly (103) are all true first editions, first impressions with the requisite points identified by Bernhard and Loe (the reprints not being stated as such on the copyright pages).
Provenance: From the library of Dr Ian Durance Pennie (1916-2002), Scottish physician and ornithologist. Pennie was co-founder and vice-president of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club, and contributed numerous articles to journals including the Scottish Naturalist, British Birds and the SOC's own Scottish Birds. He spent most of his career in Sutherland, serving as the Sutherland correspondent for the SOC's annual Scottish bird report, and was remembered in his obituary as a 'major contributor to Scottish ornithology' (Scottish Birds, 2002, pp. 57-8).